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ahh the slow decline of sizzle subscribers when i do 0 promotion of it - time to get in the clown suit, jump around like an idiot and hope people give me money
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@BsCreativeLife and even the ones that pay you, threaten you with taking their money away if you don't do what they want
@decryption
... I ought to ask you for help promoting my project, oughtn't I?
@iris_meredith depends what you're up to and if I think it's cool
@decryption @iris_meredith I think it’s cool, and if I wasn’t dreaming of retirement I’d be signing up. https://deadsimpletech.com/
~700 people from the ozbargain free trial finish up this week, so i really hope at least 5% end up paying, that would be nice and I'd be back to the number of paid subscribers the sizzle had before I took my break
@decryption hope you retain more than 5%
@tintinaujapon me too! 10% would be awesome, record levels of sizzle subscribers (which peaked at 1350 back in 2024)
@decryption @tintinaujapon I'm subscribed and have been enjoying it, even if too much of the news is AI (though that's absolutely not your fault, it's just the sad reality of being involved in tech in 2026)
@georgeharito that's me sitting at an empty text editor screen preparing a "marketing plan"
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@decryption it feels so demeaning right? It's like no matter how great your work is, if you don't act like a the ring circus, people's monkey minds flit off to the next "oooh, shiny," and forget you exist. 😩 Freaking annoying how this internet has been formed, freaking algorithms...